Test Equipment Anonymous

My conclusion: the homebrew controller in the £1000 player was marginal. The early tracks are where the disk is rotating fastest, so the disc wobble is fastest and the laser focussing has to be fastest. Anybody want to have a play with it? I'm slightly tempted to have a play with it, but on reflect...

Well, that's interesting, but it has absolutely zero in common with that installation aside from being cows. :face_with_raised_eyebrow: The entire point of the CowParade cows is that they are a canvas for the artisan to work on and bring their message directly into the communities where their indiv...

That's Johnny-come-lately fibreglass. Fibreglass is cheap and nasty temporary stuff - except when exquisitely shaped top ensure laminar flow, of course. I'd vote for the seminal example from 1978 : concrete cows. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Concrete_Cows%2C_Milton_Keynes.jpg...

Well, that's interesting, but it has absolutely zero in common with that installation aside from being cows. :face_with_raised_eyebrow: The entire point of the CowParade cows is that they are a canvas for the artisan to work on and bring their message directly into the communities where their indiv...

(SNIP) https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?id=2194&mode=view Also in Kingston, a Printed Circuit Bear https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?id=2199&mode=view Yeah, there's a similar "art incubator" project been going on worldwide for over 25 years now; CowParade . ...

We need an equivalent of mailinator for phone numbers.

I came across the collection of videos on YT about her months ago, machinery fascinates me, always has done since I was a child, I can recall the moment I became hooked, it was on a junior school trip to Southampton where the highlight for me was a tour of the Queen Mary while she was docked and th...

This will no doubt bring back some memories maybe, perhaps you were on this actual sailing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlO-VZ5-zg4 Ship, yes, but not that sailing. There's the engine room starting at 6:50. The people walking on the other side illustrate just how open it is. It also saves me bo...

Very interesting - thanks for posting about that. Purely out of strange coincidence, I just went for a rather (unsuccessful) bike ride to Kingston upon the river and saw this at Teddington: IMG_0738.jpeg Also in Kingston, a Printed Circuit Bear IMG_0751.jpeg As for the unsuccessful bit, it was foot...

Yesterday's "adventure", which can nowadays only be seen in a single place. t.JPG But what's unusual about that? I think that its a paddle steamer? Yup, the world's last ocean-going paddle steamer, PS Waverely. Here's the nearest to TE: t2.JPG And here's more of that very impressive room....

Yesterday's "adventure", which can nowadays only be seen in a single place.
But what's unusual about that?

25 CPS wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2024 12:07 am Yeah, yeah, yeah, I need to clean the kitchen.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I have a line voltage monitor in the kitchen.

Doesn't everybody?

Scarcely seems worth commenting on

Along with measles, smallpox, and rats. :P :D Sounds like a fair exchange for syphillis :( According to what I read it was already present on both sides of the pond. Looks murkier (in several senses) than I was aware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis#History Sometimes it is difficult to forete...

This week on vacation (holiday) in Williamsburg, Virginia. Today we visited Jamestown where you Limeys named everything after King James and attempted to set up a profit center but failed miserably and the settlement almost completely collapsed. The Indians tried several times to get rid of you guy...

This week on vacation (holiday) in Williamsburg, Virginia. Today we visited Jamestown where you Limeys named everything after King James and attempted to set up a profit center but failed miserably and the settlement almost completely collapsed. The Indians tried several times to get rid of you guy...

So true on this side of the pond. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/I4keXw.jpg I should make one with 6 fwd positions for mine. Lots and then some youngsters here get automatic-only licenses; all hybrids and electrics are automatic or gear-free. The joke would transfer well on here. Pah. ...

Move over obfuscated C, there's competition in town. This is a proof by construction that the Intel MMU's fault handling mechanism is Turing complete. We have constructed an assembler that translates 'Move, Branch if Zero, Decrement' instructions to C source that sets up various processor control t...

Move over obfuscated C, there's competition in town. This is a proof by construction that the Intel MMU's fault handling mechanism is Turing complete. We have constructed an assembler that translates 'Move, Branch if Zero, Decrement' instructions to C source that sets up various processor control ta...

This is a fun article: getting a file off a 30 year old Mac. Involves electronics, hackery and some interesting ideas https://www.unterminated.com/random-fun/how-to-copy-a-file-from-a-30-year-old-laptop What's the problem? My Macs are almost 40yo. You do still have 3.5in floppies and drives around,...

This is a fun article: getting a file off a 30 year old Mac. Involves electronics, hackery and some interesting ideas https://www.unterminated.com/random-fun/how-to-copy-a-file-from-a-30-year-old-laptop What's the problem? My Macs are almost 40yo. You do still have 3.5in floppies and drives around,...

Dogs are needy creatures, need to be taken for walks etc and need to be bossed and they see their keepers as their masters, whereas cats are the opposite, cats stay with you because they want to, they love you, they don't need to have a boss in their life, they think they are your boss :lol: Cats s...

Dogs are needy creatures, need to be taken for walks etc and need to be bossed and they see their keepers as their masters, whereas cats are the opposite, cats stay with you because they want to, they love you, they don't need to have a boss in their life, they think they are your boss :lol: Cats s...

Dogs are needy creatures, need to be taken for walks etc and need to be bossed and they see their keepers as their masters, whereas cats are the opposite, cats stay with you because they want to, they love you, they don't need to have a boss in their life, they think they are your boss :lol: Excell...

Never a problem I had. Cat's sitting on me was always a thing to be actively discouraged from the off. They rapidly got the message and kept their distance. I am not a cat person. I tolerate cats, but the "mixed messages" is distinctly off putting. A woman in the local shop is big into do...

All kids should have a cat. They teach that actions have consequences--- piss off the kitty & you will get clawed! :) FTFY I well remember landlady's cat sitting on me, contentedly purring. And slowly repeatedly extending its claws into my thighs. Never a problem I had. Cat's sitting on me was ...